Phase 1 of Calgary's Green Line LRT will be shorter as costs escalate

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Phase 1 of Calgary's Green Line LRT will be shorter as costs escalate
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Skyrocketing costs have derailed the first phase of Calgary's Green Line LRT project, which will now be five stations shorter than planned.

Skyrocketing costs have derailed the first phase of Calgary's Green Line LRT project, which will now be five stations shorter than planned.

The plan still includes a line underground with several stations, though the 4th Street S.E. station will now be built at ground level.It was deemed as a "major concern" at several committee meetings, though the exact costs were kept under wraps until Tuesday. In order to ensure federal funding is there, Calgary will have to submit a new business plan to Ottawa by Aug. 15.

Far-right protesters fuelled by anger and false online rumours hurled bottles and stones at officers and set a police van ablaze Tuesday outside a northwest England mosque near where three girls were fatally stabbed a day earlier.The RCMP says that a father and son have been arrested in connection with 'alleged terrorist activities' in the Greater Toronto Area.

One person sustained minor injuries after Regina Fire says a vehicle struck two homes and two other vehicles in the city's south end early Tuesday morning.A guest at a Toronto Blue Jays game earlier this month is $825,000 richer – they just don’t know it yet.The RCMP says that a father and son have been arrested in connection with 'alleged terrorist activities' in the Greater Toronto Area.

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